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by Hemal Jayasuriya

Dr Hemal Jayasuriya never ceases to be amazed at the strangeness and fascination of our world, and finds in it a subject for endless speculation. He is a published poet and is acknowledged in the International Who’s Who in Poetry. He obtained a PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Hemal also obtained a MA in Systems in Management, Lancaster University and a MSc in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University. Prior to that, Hemal obtained a BSc Honours in Biophysics from Flinders University, Australia. He is a Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and a member of the Aristotelian Society. His articles are published in international scientific journals. His poems are published in academic journals and books. Hemal is inspired by the material and immaterial in the world which shapes his poetry. He is fascinated by cosmology and scientific phenomena in the world.
POEM

Events Jostle Inside The Black Box

They arise, these events
Unpredictably, like Quantum plays
In the watery deeps of an Atom
And depart in the blink of an eye
Like a bead of early morning dew
Under a fiery ray of the blistering sun.
No deterministic certainty flows
From the Big Bang, it seems.
Meandering line of History
For no rhyme or reason
Does a butterfly’s ballerina dance.
As and when slits open
Up in the fabric of Reality to let
Gurgling pressurised waters of History’s river creep through them